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# Exploring The Bell Jar
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/exploring-the-bell-jar/
- Published: 2022-06-25T19:36:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:54:55.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

I’m currently in a book club/class on Sylvia Plath, and this Sunday we start on The Bell Jar. You know I am always researching and searching for information. I found some interesting things while reading the first nine chapters.

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[Audio interview with Joanne Greenberg](https://beta.prx.org/stories/10227), who wrote her own mental [illness](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/you-think-youre-tough/) memoir, [I Never Promised You a Rose Garden](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143136996), by one of the women at Mademoiselle with Sylvia, who was memorialized as a character in The Bell Jar. In this interview, she tells Joanne these interns could never look at each other again after reading The Bell Jar, and that their portrayal ended interns’ marriages, included her own.

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[An outline of the manuscript of The Bell Jar in Sylvia’s handwriting](https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/manuscript-outline-of-chapters-for-the-bell-jar-by-sylvia-plath) on Smith paper; the accompanying article explains a coda she had planned.

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[All of the different covers](http://www.sylviaplath.info/thumbsbooks.html) of The Bell Jar throughout its publication

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![The Bell Jar 50th edition and my knitting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f7a66a036-46e1-4863-b341-30dc91328808_1012x1024-jpeg.jpg)

The Bell Jar 50th edition and my [knitting](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/tag/knitting/)

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**All of her works:**

**Poetry collections:**

- [The Colossus and Other Po](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FColossus%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems)[ems](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375704468)
- Ariel (two editions, [Ted Hughes’ version](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780060931728) and [Sylvia’s restored, intended version](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780060732608))
- Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices
- [Crossing the Water](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780060907891)
- Winter Trees
- [The Collected Poems](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062144607)
- Selected Poems

### **Collected prose and novels:**

- [The Bell Jar](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780060174903), originally under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”
- Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963
- [Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780061549472)
- [The Journals of Sylvia Plath](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780385493918)
- The Magic Mirror, Plath’s Smith College senior thesis
- [The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780385720250), edited by Karen V. Kukil
- [The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062740434), edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
- The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
- [Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062940834)

### **Children’s books:**

- The Bed Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake
- The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit
- Mrs. Cherry’s Kitchen
- Collected Children’s Stories

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f2d012ae8-9705-4db9-9e92-a6f2a204c6f5_640x640-jpeg.jpg)

People leave her pens rather than flowers. That’s beautiful.

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